Mojdeh is an Afghan asylum seeker who fled to Greece with her young daughter. They remain living in limbo waiting to rebuild their lives.

Mid-December 2022, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) published its annual Emergency Watchlist, identifying the 20 countries in the world most at risk to face a severe humanitarian crisis or a deterioration of an ongoing humanitarian crisis in 2023. Once again, our unique methodology based on 67 indicators and discussions with key stakeholders in the region, concluded that the situations in 5 West African countries are of high concern. Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria are all countries where conflict, climate change, and economic turmoil impact the lives of millions of people and limits their access to quality health, education, and protection services, food, and sometimes, even to benefit from humanitarian assistance. These countries need the world’s attention to help displaced and host populations survive, recover, and rebuild their lives. This report aims to dive into these contexts and unpack the accelerators of the humanitarian crisis to then better identify the guardrails that decision makers need to rebuild so people can move from harm to home.

The IRC, in consortium with three international NGOs and working closely with nearly a dozen national non-profit organisations in the Central African Republic, is leading a €6.1 million project financed by the European Union to improve the protection and reintegration of women, girls and people with specific needs who are vulnerable to gender-based violence (GBV) in CAR.

The European Commission has awarded the International Rescue Committee the "EU Humanitarian Partnership Certificate 2021", as a result of the positive assessment of its application as an organisation eligible and suitable to be awarded EU funding for the implementation of humanitarian aid actions on the basis of the Terms of Reference issued by the Commission.